Probing Dark Matter with SuperCDMS in the Era of eV Sensitivity
Date
Thursday February 20, 202010:30 am - 11:30 am
Location
Stirling AEvent Category
Ziqing Hong
Northwestern University
Abstract
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter that, if it exists, may account for more than a quarter of the energy density of our universe. Despite the variety of astrophysical evidence pointing to its existence, the direct interaction of dark matter in a terrestrial detector is yet to be observed. The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment tries to observe a dark matter signal in silicon and germanium detectors operated around 50 miliKelvin. In this talk, I will discuss the status of the next generation SuperCDMS experiment, the recent results with an eV-resolution gram-scale prototype detector, and the future plan with this technology.
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